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3.7 AVERAGE
3.7 AVERAGE
inspiring
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content Warnings
Moderate: Rape
Minor: Rape
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
slow-paced
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Rape
challenging
dark
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Really cool premise with lacking execution. Temporally-fragmented narrative seemed purposeless besides a couple of rather unnecessary twists. A sense of time that at times stretches indomitably long and at times condenses such vast swaths of time into a footnote. A lot of the time, I didn’t care for a few of the simultaneous stories. I get what they’re doing in the context of the narrative (I.e. I get it, she has a clarinet, maybe these are a real-time representation of her dad’s tangential thoughts ), but more often than not it feels fundamentally disconnected from itself. There’s little here that couldn’t have been successfully (or more so) told chronologically.
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A beautiful exploration of the human life, and our possible future with the climate (political and literal) we are currently living in. I did feel like the lives of King and Athena did mirror each other’s in this complex way because of how their situations and personalities drove them to take any of the steps they did.
Although, one thing I absolutely did not like was how the book describes anything pertaining to the actual people. Visceral explanations of the smell of their sweat and breath, it’s felt weird and out of place every time. And although the book aimed to show the evils of caste system and capitalism I felt like it ended up not doing either sufficiently and had it not been for the characters, the story would have been fairly bland.
Although, one thing I absolutely did not like was how the book describes anything pertaining to the actual people. Visceral explanations of the smell of their sweat and breath, it’s felt weird and out of place every time. And although the book aimed to show the evils of caste system and capitalism I felt like it ended up not doing either sufficiently and had it not been for the characters, the story would have been fairly bland.